US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 31 for "Intra prediction for square and non-square blocks in video compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,027, issued on March 31, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intra prediction for square and non-square blocks in video compression" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for video decoding, a determination is made as to whether an angular intra prediction mode for a current block which is a non-square block is a wide angle mode outside a range of directions spanning a bottom left diagonal direction and a top right diagonal direction of the current block. When the angular ...